Betrayal
Subtitle: how Black intellectuals have abandoned the ideals of the civil rights era
By: Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780231139649; 9780231511445
Subjects: African American intellectuals -- Political activity; African Americans -- Civil rights; Civil rights movements -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Little Africa; title: Jail : Southern detention to global liberation; title: Friends like these : race and neoconservatism; title: After civil rights : the rise of Black public intellectuals; title: Have mask, will travel : centrists from the Ivy League; title: A capital fellow from Hoover : Shelby Steele; title: Reflections of a first amendment trickster : Stephen Carter; title: Man without connection : John McWhorter; title: American myth : illusions of liberty and justice for all; title: Prison : colored bodies, private profit; title: Conclusion: What then must we do?